Music: Real Estate: Days

I haven’t been doing my musical homework lately or would have noticed the new Real Estate album at the top of the Pitchfork best albums list. With such a flood of new shit to feed through, it would be extremely facile to shoot off that this is as good as the first time I heard The Shins, The Clientele or early R.E.M….I know, I know I keep saying every new thing I think is good (besides all that corpse paint Scandinavian gansta rap :)) sounds like early R.E.M., but it’s not just the jangle to the picking that I pine for, but an effortless timelessness they had from the git go, and these guys have it. Too. Or have come to it. Wow. Have wasted a lot of dough on vinyl this year that I Thought was good, waiting for an LP such as this. A hot spaghetti western on a sticky, soda smeared SoCal beach (those adjectives make no sense, but hey, you wouldn’t guess these guys are from Jersey). Johnny Marr on ludes, slo-mo. Sweet. Classic. Do I even need to recommend this? Oh well. -CM